Mammals of Africa Trivia Questions
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This is the largest land animal alive, and it greets family with a low rumble below human hearing.
Difficulty: Easy
- Four-toed Sengi
- Hamadryas Baboon
- Forest Elephant
- African Savanna Elephant
This browser has a pointed prehensile upper lip for stripping twigs and a reputation for charging first.
Difficulty: Medium
- Grévy's Zebra
- Mountain Zebra
- White Rhinoceros
- Black Rhinoceros
This nocturnal oddity taps wood to find grubs, then hooks them out with a thin, ball-jointed middle finger.
Difficulty: Hard
- Aye-aye
- Indri
- Black Lemur
- Grey Mouse Lemur
This is the only truly social cat, and the male's mane darkens with age and testosterone.
Difficulty: Easy
- Dwarf Mongoose
- Aardwolf
- Lion
- Honey Badger
This is the largest monkey in the world, and the dominant male's face is ridged in blue and scarlet.
Difficulty: Medium
- Gelada
- Mandrill
- De Brazza's Monkey
- Barbary Macaque
This is the ancestor of every domestic cat on Earth, tamed in the Near East around 10,000 years ago.
Difficulty: Hard
- Fossa
- Black-footed Cat
- African Wildcat
- Caracal
This ape strips a twig to fish termites from a mound, the first tool use ever recorded in a wild animal.
Difficulty: Easy
- Bonobo
- Chimpanzee
- Verreaux's Sifaka
- Zanzibar Red Colobus
This grazer has a broad square mouth, and its name is a mistranslation of a word meaning wide.
Difficulty: Medium
- Mountain Zebra
- Black Rhinoceros
- Plains Zebra
- White Rhinoceros
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